Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar

(glucose) levels, which result from defects in insulin secretion, or action, or both.
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Diabetes is a disease in which the body doesn't produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone
produced in the pancreas, an organ near the stomach. Insulin is needed to turn sugar and other food into
energy. When you have diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use its own insulin
as well as it should, or both. This causes sugars to build up too high in your blood.

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Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the pancreas no longer produces enough insulin
or when cells stop responding to the insulin that is produced, so that glucose in the blood
cannot be absorbed into the cells of the body.
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder caused by an absolute or relative

deficiency of insulin, an anabolic hormone.
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Diabetes Mellitus, disease in which the pancreas produces insufficient

amounts of insulin, or in which the body’s cells fail to respond appropriately to
insulin.
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